Domestic Policy Flashcards
List some of Henry’s aim as king?
-Establish status amongst European monarchs
-re establish role of nobility
What was Henry’s early style of govt?
-Initially used conciliar govt to rule
-made William Warham surrender position as lores chancellor to Wolsey.
-Used privy chamber
How many parliament sessions did Henry attend?
19/27
How did Henry use the privy chamber ?
-Surrounded himself with friends
-1519 staff elevated and increased in number to 20
-very beneficial William Bereton (groom) got £1000 a year
Who did Henry get to sign his documents?
Anthony Denry chief gentlemen
What did some people view Wolsey as?
Alter rex
What was Henry’s govt like under Wolsey ?
-Court of star chamber dealt with crimes
-court of chancery dealt with disputes over inheritance
-court of requests provide access to poor people
Examples of what Wolsey did for judicial system?
-made court accessible to poor people
-rich powerful didn’t gain any legal advantage
-strengthened star chamber encouraging it to hear cases of misconduct by nobility
What did Wolsey do with the financial system?
-1512 flexible tax system
-1522 national survey (1st attempt in nearly 500 years)
Wosley’s church reforms?
-Instructed English bishops to do their job more professionally to address abuses within the church
Abuses in church?
Pluralism
Nepotism
Annates
How many children did Catherine of Aragon have?
6 children (3 sons) but all died apart from one daughter Mary born in 1516
Why was Wolsey removed from power?
-made lots of enemies (Duke of Norfolk)
-Failure to secure annulment to Henry’s marriage to Catherine
How did Wolsey get removed ?
Oct 1529 accused of praemunire (working in interests of the pope)
Died Nov 1930
Thomas Cranmer
-Held privileged position as Archbishop of Canterbury
-Helped enact Protestant changes to the church
Thomas Moore
-Replace Wolsey in 1529
-wrote utopia and believed Catholic Church could reform by persuasion rather than drastic change.
Thomas Cromwell
-Became Henry’s principal minister
-Led Henry’s govt as principal minister between 1532-1540
Difference between catholic amd Protestant
Catholic
-order to go heaven souls had to be free of sin
-services in Latin
-brightly coloured churches
Protestant
-only faith needed to go to heaven
-services in English
-not brightly coloured
-bible in English
What was supplication of the beggars 1529
Dedication to Henry provided powerful attack on Catholic Church which was portrayed as greedy and corrupt
What was in defence of the seven sacraments
Shows support for the pope who rewarded him giving him title defender of the faith Henry wrote it
Who translated bible into English?
William Tyndall
What was Act in conditional restraint of Annates 1532?
-Annates payments made by bishops to the pope
What was the act in restraint of appeals 1533
-23rd may 1533 Henry’s marriage to Catherine declared void and n grounds that papal dispensation was invalid
What was act of Dispensations? 1534
-Stopped all payments to Rome including peters pence
What was act of succession? 1534
-Heirs of 2nd marriage legitimised and Mary bastardised
-Papal response on 23rd march 1534 reaffirm validity of Henry’s marriage to Catherine
Who was Thomas Cromwell ?
Kings vice regent 1535
What was Thomas Cromwell role in govt ?
-Driving force behind English reformation
-Dissolution of monasteries 800 shut down and wealth seized by crown in 1538
